The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) waste-to-energy project at the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai is nearly 80% complete, with construction and installation work currently underway at the site.
Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide inspected the project on Wednesday, 13 May, and reviewed the progress of the work.
She also issued necessary directions to officials during the site visit.
The project is designed to scientifically process around 600 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste every day and generate up to 8 MW of electricity.
Once operational, it will become one of Mumbai’s key waste-processing facilities at Deonar, a site that has long been central to the city’s solid waste management challenge.
According to a statement by the BMC, the project is being developed at the Deonar landfill as part of the civic body’s effort to convert waste into electricity through scientific processing.
The inspection covered ongoing construction and installation works at the facility.
Bhide also planted a tree at the project site during the visit.
After inspecting the waste-to-energy project, she reviewed the Deonar bio-mining project and took stock of solid waste management operations at the landfill.
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Deputy Commissioner (Commissioner’s Office) Prashant Gaikwad, Deputy Commissioner (Solid Waste Management) Kiran Dighavkar, Deputy Commissioner Sandhya Nandedkar and other officials and staff were present during the visit.
The Deonar project has been in focus because Mumbai continues to face pressure from high daily waste generation and limited landfill space. Deonar is among the city’s oldest landfill sites and has been associated for years with concerns over legacy waste, fires, air pollution and health impacts in nearby neighbourhoods.
The planned waste-to-energy facility is intended to reduce the volume of fresh municipal solid waste going into conventional dumping by processing 600 tonnes per day and recovering energy from it.
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